Literature

Ball of Fat (Boule de suif) Version 2

Read by Bob Neufeld


Guy de Maupassant



Boule de Suif (1880) is a short story by the late-19th century French writer Guy de Maupassant. It is arguably his most famous short story, …

The King of Schnorrers

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Israel Zangwill



Manasseh da Costa, protagonist of this hilarious novel, is a schnorrer (beggar) who lives on the charitable contributions of the Jews of lat…

L'Assommoir

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Émile Zola



Émile François Zola (French pronunciation: [emil zɔˈla]) (2 April 1840 – 29 September 1902) was an influential French writer, …

The Jew of Malta

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Christopher Marlowe



Christopher “Kit” Marlowe (baptised 26 February 1564 – 30 May 1593) was an English dramatist, poet, and translator of the Elizabethan era. T…

Caleb Williams or Things As They Are

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William Godwin



The novel describes the downfall of Ferdinando Falkland, a British squire, and his attempts to ruin and destroy the life of Caleb Williams, …

Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 2

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Samuel Richardson



Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady is an epistolary novel by Samuel Richardson, published in 1748. It tells the tragic story of a her…

Noli Me Tangere (The Social Cancer)

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José Rizal



Noli Me Tangere (Latin for Touch Me Not) is a novel by the National Hero of the Philippines, Dr. José Rizal. It was originally writte…

Tales of Unrest

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Joseph Conrad



Tales of Unrest (1898) is the first collection of short stories by Joseph Conrad published in his lifetime.Joseph Conrad (1857–1924), a Poli…

The Duel

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Anton Chekhov



The plot centres around Laevsky, who is living in a small seaside town in the Caucasus after running away with another man's wife, Nadyezhda…

The Way of All Flesh

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Samuel Butler



The Way of All Flesh (1903) is a semi-autobiographical novel by Samuel Butler which attacks Victorian-era hypocrisy. Written between 1873 an…

Kenilworth

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Sir Walter Scott



An Elizabethan era historical novel by Scotland's master of fiction, Sir Walter Scott. With a cast of historical and created characters, inc…

Letters of Travel

Read by Tim Bulkeley (1948-2019)


Rudyard Kipling



Three books of travel writing (between them covering the USA, Canada, Japan and Egypt) by the Nobel Prize winning author of the Just So Stor…

The Life and Death of King John

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William Shakespeare



The Life and Death of King John, a history play by William Shakespeare, dramatises the reign of John, King of England (ruled 1199–1216), son…

Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens

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G. K. Chesterton



“These papers were originally published as prefaces to the separate books of Dickens in one of the most extensive of those cheap libraries o…

Resurrection, Book 2

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Leo Tolstoy



Resurrection is the last of Tolstoy's major fiction works published in his lifetime. Tolstoy intended the novel as an exposition of injustic…

A Brief History of English and American Literature

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Henry A. Beers



Henry Augustin Beers, native of Buffalo, NY and professor of English at Yale, with the help of John Fletcher Hurst (1834-1903), Methodist bi…

The Devil's Pool

Read by J. M. Smallheer


George Sand



George Sand (the pen name of Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin 1804-1876) is famous for flaunting the conventions of behavior expected of women o…

Heroides

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Publius (Ovid) Ovidius Naso



The Heroides, also known as the Heroines, the Letters of the Heroines or simply as Epistles are a very famous collection of poems by Ovid, …

O Pioneers! (version 2)

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Willa Sibert Cather and Willa Cather



O Pioneers! tells the story of the Bergsons, a family of Swedish immigrants in the farm country near the fictional town of Hanover, Nebraska…

The Portrait of a Lady, Volume 2

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Henry James



The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880-1881 …

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